Top products from r/ProductManagement
We found 38 product mentions on r/ProductManagement. We ranked the 36 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 5
Cracking the PM Interview How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology
2. Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
3. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
4. Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
O Reilly Media
5. Decode and Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
6. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 2
Wiley
7. Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Wiley
8. Applied Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction For Business Leaders
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
9. Analyzing Baseball Data with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
CRC Press
10. Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
11. Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean (O'Reilly))
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
O Reilly Media
12. Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
O'Reilly Media
13. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The First 90 Days Updated and Expanded Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
14. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
15. The Product Manager's Desk Reference 2E
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
McGraw-Hill
16. The New Weibull Handbook Fifth Edition, Reliability and Statistical Analysis for Predicting Life, Safety, Supportability, Risk, Cost and Warranty Claims
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
17. Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Microsoft Press
18. Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
This is a great start! I'm going through a similar process of resume refinement right now, so I understand how much work is involved. I'm including a bunch of feedback based on what I've learned so far and had success with. I've also hired a couple of PMs as a part of my current role, which has helped with seeing what "clicked" for me when on the hiring-side of things. Apologies for the length in advance, hopefully this is useful.
Keep at it and don't get discouraged! Your next opportunity is out there.
Great to hear that you're looking to get into product ownership, it's a great career with a bunch of learning opportunities and career options. Understanding agile and the various frameworks is a great start. It sounds like you have some technical understanding (although not a must, it can help tremendously) and also domain expertise...again more ticks. At its heart a PO is responsible for ensuring that what your team build is the correct thing. This can be summarised as the following
This work is often called 'Discovery' and learning how to ensure that these 4 critera are meet and then suitably broken down to stopries which can be consumed for your dev/qa team is keys. As with everything there is a host of methods/frameworks out there, but here is some articles i've found good.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/user-needs - a comon method for creating initial stories, and most improtantly makes you consider why you're creating the story as you need to talk to the benifit. (the british government's digital transformation is actually a great case study for PO's)
https://www.devbridge.com/articles/how-to-set-up-dual-track-scrum-in-jira/ -Dual track scrum is a framework for creating a design framework which preceeds the dev/test sprint.
I'd suggest trying to find out which agile methodology your company uses (Scrum, kanban etc) and then spending time gathering more info on the specific methodology. If Scrum then the key ceremonies a PO is needed for is Sprint Planning and Demos & Retrospectives. Learn what is expected of you during these ceremonies.
A couple of books that i found useful:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540223&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+startup - Lean Startup....kinda product mangement/owner essential reading
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/0593076117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540263&sr=8-1&keywords=sprint - Sprint. A practical guide toi how to solve big problems. As you only have a week heres a 90 second video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2vSQPh6MCE
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspired-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540364&sr=8-1&keywords=inspired - Inspired - A great book specifically on Product manangement but is also usefuil for PO's
Once you become a PO, the trick is applying the host of diffrent frameworks and understanding what works best for your team is the tricky part. If you can find yourself a mentor it's a great help to do so as they can help you navigate potential hurdles.
Hope this helps and good luck with the interview
PS i didn't continue with education post GCSE, don't let that worry you.
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You can take this answer all kind of ways, but I would recommend that you start with a classic. How to Win Friends and Influence People is probably the original self improvement book:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People-ebook/dp/B07XRXR5PC
From there, I would suggest focusing on areas of personal weakness. If you aren’t sure where to focus, read What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B000Q9J128
Third, focus on how to think aka “mental models”. In product, you will never be the “smartest” person in the room. Reasoning by analogy, asking the right questions, and discerning the map from the territory are all useful skills.
Here is my favorite blog which has tons of resources on mental models:
https://fs.blog/
All three of these have been turning points in my Product Management career. Good luck!
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I found the following book very useful to come up with a framework for pricing decisions: Monetizing Innovation. https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product/dp/1119240867/.
This is a great resource: https://www.oneweekpm.com. This course is a great place to start.
Hitchhiker's Guide to Product Management ( great blog ):
Books to read after the course: https://yilunzh.com/pm/
INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love: https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers-ebook/dp/B077NRB36N
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Product-Playbook-Innovate-Products/dp/1118960874
Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Greatness-Practical-launching-outstanding/dp/1449336574
Hope this guides help.
OP try giving this text a read: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615930417/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl_nodl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0615930417&linkCode=as2&tag=seatintecoac-20
Basically a CC functions like this: Credit card companies make the bulk of their money from three things: interest, fees charged to cardholders, and transaction fees paid by businesses that accept credit cards.
Think of a credit card as a short term loan, so if you were to start lending money, what would you look into first? Determining who your target market is. Is the CC for college students, first time creditors, arm forces members, state employees, mid income or new creditors with 0 credit?
How are you finding your CC company?
Will you have crediting investors who would get profits from the collected interests over time it will you have shared holders of a financial institution?
Think about how you would go about establishing credit worthiness, credit interest tiers, payment methods, insurance, security and fraud etc.
Hope this gives you something to start on.
Can’t recommend this book enough (300 pages):
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782818/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kWKyCb3XHZKFX
“This is Product Management” Podcast: Great material that’s pretty dense with little bullshit. Could easily snag some great management theories and jot them down.
YouTube Nir Eyal. Wrote the book “Hooked: How to Build Habit-forming Products.” He’s a great speaker. Beyond him there are a ton of great YouTube videos of people in product, ProductCon videos might be a start.
Eric Reis blog.
Not sure if the intent is for your client to drop your product slides into a larger presentation, or if you’re intending to build the complete presentation for your client...either way, you may find it useful to incorporate storytelling techniques to amp up viewer engagement. I’ve found the following books very good:
Resonate, by Nancy Duarte
Storynomics, by Robert McKee and Tom Gerace
Good luck!
The book I read it in was https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Practice-Real-World-Connective/dp/1491982276 and I'm 99% sure they go into more details in that book about specifically what they meant by it. (In general it's a pretty good book that I'd recommend)
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For me it means things like:
That sort of stuff.
Have you read Decode and Conquer (http://amzn.to/29G0irv) and How Google Works (http://amzn.to/29G0p6k)?
Some videos:
https://userbrain.net/blog/product-management-videos-that-are-worth-your-time
But still, I'd love to keep learning. Especially about improving people skills. It gets more important as you move up.
You might want to check out this book- Cracking the PM Interview .It's a little dated now, but talks about what it's like to interview at a number of companies, including Facebook. Can I ask a question in return? I'm looking to pivot into the PM role. However - I lack a technical background. Any recommendations on how to address that in general or in the interview? Can I ask what small/medium sized companies you worked at? All people talk about are the big 4-5 :)
Read this: First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1422188612/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_XqeFDbVRQHA8B
Then read this: The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0670921602/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_nreFDbZQPJHRM
Biggest failure is lack of humility. Remember you are a Servant Leader (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership) and are responsible for everything while owning nothing.
Now that he's in his 40s I'd recommend doing some introspection and possibly re-branding of his resume and image. He's in his PRIME money earning years and needs to capitalize on his experience.
In the absence of an amazing mentor this book helped me understand what was required to make the jump to Director and Senior Director. https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B000Q9J128
Mostly because I wanted to analyze baseball stats, and at the time (4-5 years ago) that was mostly done in R. If the last industry conference I went to is any indication, it still is, many of the presentations features plots that were clearly ggplot2. There are also books like this one floating around: https://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Baseball-Data-Chapman-Hall/dp/1466570229/ref=nodl_.
Software Requirements (3rd Edition) (Developer Best Practices) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735679665/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_91JMDbRFCPG5X
the lean product playbook is excellent, (no this is not an affiliate link, nor am I the author) https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Product-Playbook-Innovate-Products/dp/1118960874/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549985813&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+product+playbook
Product Management in Practice... Have recommended this to a few people who are early on in their PM career (was helpful to me as well!)
A former manager I really respect swears by "Product Leadership" https://www.amazon.com/Product-Leadership-Managers-Products-Successful/dp/1491960604
Applied Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook For Business Leaders is a must-read imo. It should point you in the right direction.
Good primer on all of the agile methodologies:
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Agile-Understanding-Scrum-Kanban/dp/1449331920/ref=nodl_
The Product Manager's Desk Reference by Steven Haines (I heard rumors he is creating a 3rd edition)
If you haven’t been recommended it yet, you might want to check out Cracking The PM Interview
Your title indicates knowledge of quality/reliability standards are going to be a critical need, right?
Find the Q&R standards that are used by aerospace firms & bookmark them.
It also helps to become familiar with the math underlying many statistical reliability concepts. I ran across this one (The New Weibull Handbook) a few days ago::
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Reliability-Statistical-Predicting-Supportability/dp/0965306232
Amazon wants WAY too much for this, but I found an earlier edition elsewhere.
Read cracking the pm interview.
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782818/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_HAdBzb02F7VZV
>https://www.amazon.com/Product-Leadership-Managers-Products-Successful/dp/1491960604
The reviews are very mixed on this book. Why all the hype?
https://www.amazon.ca/Industrial-Organization-Strategies-Paul-Belleflamme/dp/0521681596 the last few chapters of this go into it in some detail. There are many papers on the subject though. Industrial Organization + Two sided markets should turn up a lot of results.
Platform Revolution – How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economy?and How to Make Them Work for You